Full Tilt Poker Ex-Chief to Plead Guilty

The onetime chief executive of defunct online-poker website Full Tilt Poker has reached a deal to plead guilty to criminal charges as he awaits a heart transplant in California.

Raymond Bitar, Full Tilt's former CEO, was arrested last July at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport after returning to the U.S. He was originally charged, along with 10 others, in 2011 as part of a U.S. crackdown on illegal Internet gambling.